听名著练听力之简爱篇 07

（单词翻译）

PART ONE - LIFE AT GATESHEAD
CHAPTER ONE
The Fight

The red room was a cold, silent¹ room. It was the largest

bedroom in the house, but no one slept in it. Nine years ago

my uncle, Mr. Reed², had died in this room. Since then no one

wanted to go into the room.
Now that I was alone I thought about the terrible people I

lived with. John Reed, his sisters, his mother, the servants,

they all scolded³ and hated me. Why could I never please them?

Eliza was [-----1-----], but it did not matter. Georgiana had

a bad temper⁴, but everyone loved her because she was

beautiful. John was ugly, curel and violent⁵, but nobody

punished him. I tried to be good and make no mistakes, but

they called me bad every day. Now that I had fought John to

protect myself, everyone blamed me.
I spent the rest of the day in the red room asking myself why

I had to suffer and why life was so unfair. "Perhaps I should

run away, or [-----2-----] myself to death," I thought sadly.
Soon it was dark outside. It was raining, and I could hear the

wind in the trees. It sounded like ghosts crying. I was no

longer angry, and I began to think the Reeds⁶ might be right.

Perhaps I was really bad inside. Did I [-----3-----] to die

like my uncle Reed? I didi not remember him. Just before he

died, he had made my Aunt Reed promise to care for me like

their own children. Now she probably wished she had never made

that promise to him!

Vocabulary Focus⁷

now that由于……，例如：Now that you have finished your

homework, you can watch TV.（既然你完成了作业，那么你可以看电

视。）
答案：
1.selfish
2.starve
3.deserve